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Moby — The Great Escape
Album: 18
Avg rating:
6.2

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Total ratings: 1849









Released: 2002
Length: 2:05
Plays (last 30 days): 3
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I use the lock that has no key, bind you with chains
But no one else can see
Let the water creep over your face, I'll send it in waves
Just to watch you perform the great escape

How long can you hold your breath?
While you hold mine, I cannot wait
Just to watch you perform the great escape

I'll pull your arms tight behind your back, kiss my selfless blade
And wonder while you fade

How long can you hold your breath?
While you hold mine, I cannot wait
Just to watch you perform the great escape
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There are so many great ocean and water songs that could be played together with this, but the strongest vibe I'm feelin right now after The Great Escape is the uncertain and insecure Out to Sea by Aarktica.  (If you hunt that one down, be careful of Ocean on the same album ... boy does that one hit different.)
Posted 1 year ago by natrik    [ Reply ]
Man, Moby can really hit those high notes.
Posted 1 year ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
So it is possible for someone to whisper into a microphone without the voice (what there is of it) being overwhelmed by the breathing. I'd rather they sang, though.
Posted 2 years ago by kbs    [ Reply ]
 Chumbawamba-1984 wrote:
tiggers wrote: IMHO using "utter crap" and "Jethro Tull" in the same sentence is a pleonasm. Some others think for the past 30 years that this is a sacrilege.
I, like the 'some others' consider 'oxymoron' to be the correct word.

Posted 2 years ago by kbs    [ Reply ]
Cujo moon - Jeff Buckley and now the great escape... an ethereal/spiritual/meditative atmosphere in the last few tracks... well done and very much needed. Difficult times we´re living in.
Posted 2 years ago by mrctrm    [ Reply ]
Or U2 ...Mothers of the Disappeared from Joshua Tree Posted 4 years ago by coccyx I too think it borrows heavily from a U2 track, perhaps that very one. Good ear coccyx
Posted 2 years ago by RoaringMouse    [ Reply ]
I do not think the previous responders to your cute literary reference understood you. Perhaps a bit obvious, but I grinned. OK, I have to say this.... Moby, what a dick. Posted 5 months ago by sirtezzai
Posted 2 years ago by mach-hog    [ Reply ]
Nice!
Posted 2 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
 sirtezza wrote:

OK, I have to say this....

Moby, what a dick.




What do they say about you? ...eh?
Posted 2 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
OMG, 
Bloated Moby strikes again:

"I'll pull your arms tight behind your back, kiss my selfless blade
And wonder while you fade".

WTF does that mean?

Your Rating: 2
Posted 2 years ago by tinypriest    [ Reply ]
 sirtezza wrote:

OK, I have to say this....

Moby, what a dick.



I guess you must be a successful singer songwriter that's just looking down on this guy then.
Posted 3 years ago by Silvervanman    [ Reply ]
OK, I have to say this....

Moby, what a dick.
Posted 3 years ago by sirtezza    [ Reply ]
Is it a bloke?
Is it a bird?
Posted 3 years ago by pjw1200    [ Reply ]
OMG I hate hearing spittle. 
Posted 4 years ago by crangal    [ Reply ]
THE best Moby song ever! The only good one!

Posted 4 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Now that sounds just like my Roland midi processor cellos.
Posted 4 years ago by MrStatenIsle    [ Reply ]
A solid 2.  JAYsus….what passes for talent these days.   Moby's an artist for sure, but there's a reason some things need to remain on the cutting room floor....


Posted 5 years ago by George_Tirebiter    [ Reply ]
Yikes, that was a painful listen.

The dreary, amateurish effort of this track annoyed me so much I opened a browser, logged in and voted! {#Grumpy} This came out on an album released at the peak of his popularity, and he couldn't even be bothered to hire session musicians for it?!

A sucko barfo guide track rescued by an excellent vocal. This should be 15% faster performed by a real string quartet not just phoned in by Mr. Hall. Hell, the a cappella would have been better.

At least the following track was great!
Posted 5 years ago by christopherwoods    [ Reply ]
OK, you've played it 3 times in the last week.. and I'll PSD it once again (after I rate it a 1) ... boring, slow, uninspiring!
Posted 5 years ago by martymoose15    [ Reply ]
 birdiestobehad wrote:
Every time I hear this song, there is something in my memory bank telling me this is a Pink Floyd song...............or maybe Roger Waters solo........... Not sure why.................{#Ask}
 
It is likely not the case for you, but there seems to be a collective delusion among many people who post in the comments here at RP that every song ever written is somehow "borrowed" from Pink Floyd.
Posted 5 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Every time I hear this song I think of Creepshow the Movie

Posted 5 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
better than the average MOBY
Posted 6 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
 birdiestobehad wrote:
Every time I hear this song, there is something in my memory bank telling me this is a Pink Floyd song...............or maybe Roger Waters solo........... Not sure why.................{#Ask}

 
Or U2 ...Mothers of the Disappeared from Joshua Tree
Posted 6 years ago by coccyx    [ Reply ]
I wish I'd jumpstart
 with cobalt blue.
Posted 8 years ago by twoplain2sea    [ Reply ]
Every time I hear this song, there is something in my memory bank telling me this is a Pink Floyd song...............or maybe Roger Waters solo........... Not sure why.................{#Ask}
Posted 8 years ago by birdiestobehad    [ Reply ]
 kaupmees wrote:
Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor from Azure Ray, also RP artists. They have toured with Moby.
 
Thanks for the info. What's so disturbing about the lyrics?!
Posted 8 years ago by basilarnold    [ Reply ]
Moby's music is a pure talent reverberation
Posted 8 years ago by basilarnold    [ Reply ]
Please make your Great Escape somewhere else Moby.
Posted 8 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
mercifully rescued by thenewno2.  Thanks, Mr G.
Posted 10 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
Musical creativity sounds here to be proportional to hair quantity. {#Nyah}
Posted 10 years ago by CoYoT51    [ Reply ]
The more psycho the better ---- music should push your buttons.  This ones the bomb
Posted 10 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
that strings. :D
Posted 10 years ago by MikeszCZ    [ Reply ]
That's a first for me. Quite interesting. Perform the great escape. Ambiguous but clear enough. 
Posted 11 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Creepy.
Posted 11 years ago by MsJudi    [ Reply ]
This album was released in 2002, not 1994 as it says in the info above.
Posted 12 years ago by stahlwerk    [ Reply ]
The melody sounds like a video game.
Posted 12 years ago by GarageDragon    [ Reply ]
I think this song is about jealousy, specifically about how a jealous person will smother anyone they're in a relationship with.
Posted 14 years ago by cayenne    [ Reply ]
I liked it
Posted 14 years ago by ddbz    [ Reply ]
What a creepy little tune.
Posted 15 years ago by manzanitafire    [ Reply ]
 kaupmees wrote:
Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor from Azure Ray, also RP artists. They have toured with Moby.
 
Thank you!  I thought that's who it was.

Posted 15 years ago by vivakitty    [ Reply ]
Moby has some really great stuff but this is not one of my favorites. I'm indifferent about it.
Posted 15 years ago by ord_mike    [ Reply ]
The is a great song, one of Moby's best.  10. 
Posted 15 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
...this song would sound much stronger with real strings...
Posted 16 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
With each spin into rotation, Moby seems to spiral farther from relevance..
Posted 17 years ago by dctrpunda    [ Reply ]
MatClarke wrote:
Moby Dick
Graduated from the Great School of Humor? (ironic, of course!) Poor Ernest!!!
Posted 17 years ago by CoYoT51    [ Reply ]
Moby Dick
Posted 17 years ago by MatClarke    [ Reply ]
tiggers wrote:
Well I like it so there. At least if you don't like it it is mercifully short. I had to suffer 25 minutes of utter crap from Jethro Tull on here the other night. Eventually I turned it off as I thought it would never end.
IMHO using "utter crap" and "Jethro Tull" in the same sentence is a pleonasm. Some others think for the past 30 years that this is a sacrilege.
Posted 17 years ago by Chumbawamba-1984    [ Reply ]
Well I like it so there. At least if you don't like it it is mercifully short. I had to suffer 25 minutes of utter crap from Jethro Tull on here the other night. Eventually I turned it off as I thought it would never end.
Posted 17 years ago by tiggers    [ Reply ]
kazuma wrote:
Put a harpoon right thru it, it did.
Like Yoda, you talk.
Posted 17 years ago by DrLex    [ Reply ]
Harpua wrote:
Real set killer there.
Put a harpoon right thru it, it did.
Posted 18 years ago by kazuma    [ Reply ]
Thar she blows!! Moby, I mean. God, I hate this.
Posted 18 years ago by Honeyman    [ Reply ]
Real set killer there.
Posted 18 years ago by Harpua    [ Reply ]
it's a beautiful one, haven't heard it in forever.
Posted 18 years ago by flyfree    [ Reply ]
Bucket of slop!
Posted 18 years ago by ZedLeppelin    [ Reply ]
Moby will always hold that place in musical time where everyone else tries to match up.
Posted 18 years ago by Gryn    [ Reply ]
is there really no way to give a negative rating?
Posted 18 years ago by calray    [ Reply ]
I actually am quite in love with this song, from the first time I've heard it, to know, almost a year later.
Posted 18 years ago by danimal3114u    [ Reply ]
rascal420 wrote:
That Moby sure has a high voice.
LOL
Posted 18 years ago by FAY    [ Reply ]
Sometimes Moby has it... Sometimes he doesn't... ...and then there's this song.
Posted 18 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
Not to sound uncharitable, but perhaps the worst song I've heard played on RP. Hopefully just a weather induced anomaly.
Posted 18 years ago by MidTennMike    [ Reply ]
When I play this CD at home, I skip right over this song. Sometimes I wish RP as a skip feature.........
Posted 18 years ago by handyrae    [ Reply ]
I'm performing my great escape on this one...
Posted 18 years ago by crockydile    [ Reply ]
ursus88 wrote:
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!! BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!!
Funny.
Posted 18 years ago by ScottN    [ Reply ]
ursus88 wrote:
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!! BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!!
LMAO.
Posted 18 years ago by kazuma    [ Reply ]
rah wrote:
this is terrible. he could at the very least have sprung for an actual string quartet instead of that horrible synthesized attempt. yuck.
Oooh, you're right about the strings. There's no substitute for the real thing.
Posted 18 years ago by rosedraws    [ Reply ]
Please use real strings the next time Moby ;-) 5
Posted 18 years ago by Atombender    [ Reply ]
Beastman wrote:
The lyrics are not disturbing... its about Houdini you jackasses
Uh... read the lyrics. They are disturbing. Not about Houdini. gntlemanartist wrote:
Is it just me or does the vocalist in this song sound just like the female singer from the Magnetic Fields? Anyone know if it's the same girl?
Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor from Azure Ray, also RP artists. They have toured with Moby.
Posted 18 years ago by kaupmees    [ Reply ]
Sadly one of the very few decent tracks on this album. Only saving grace is Sinead's vocals. Eerie to say the least.
Posted 19 years ago by maLeFunKtion    [ Reply ]
"I'm an artist. You can tell, because I have a great record collection. I snip my favorite pieces from my records, & piece them together over a beat. I played them to intoxicated people in clubs. They decided I was a musical genius. "Wait. Maybe they said my shoes were a musical genius. I really can't remember."
Posted 19 years ago by Mangoman    [ Reply ]
this is terrible. he could at the very least have sprung for an actual string quartet instead of that horrible synthesized attempt. yuck.
Posted 19 years ago by rah    [ Reply ]
He stole this style from This Mortal Coil.
Posted 19 years ago by dctrpunda    [ Reply ]
This song, ah hell .......
Posted 19 years ago by beatlechick    [ Reply ]
I'd say that I hate this tune, but its plodding dullness has rendered me completely unable to muster any strong feelings with regard to it at all...
Posted 19 years ago by flandersdog    [ Reply ]
That Moby sure has a high voice.
Posted 19 years ago by rascal420    [ Reply ]
I just got up and am drinking coffee to wake up so that I can do some work, and this song is boring the shit out me!!
Posted 19 years ago by Mugro    [ Reply ]
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!! BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!!
Posted 19 years ago by ursus88    [ Reply ]
This song makes me have a love hate relationship with Moby
Posted 19 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
auraveda wrote:
... the synth strings kind of grate on me a bit...
Right. ON.
Posted 19 years ago by ashbyman    [ Reply ]
BO-RING.
Posted 19 years ago by rah    [ Reply ]
Very pretty - the synth strings kind of grate on me a bit - real strings would have been better, but otherwise very nice.
Posted 20 years ago by auraveda    [ Reply ]
apathy wrote:
I was really dissapointed with this entire album. It was months after 9/11, and I'd grieved enough.
Well, it does take awhile to compose, produce and distribute an album, y'know ... Also, just a shot in the dark here, but if Moby is anything like me (we both have a 9/11 birthday), the grief took on an extra, personal shade. Having your birthday turned into a national day of mourning is kinda like losing a little bit of your identity. Hope that as the years wear on, you're able to listen to this with a different set of ears (but still your own!)
Posted 20 years ago by MoxyP    [ Reply ]
Is it just me or does the vocalist in this song sound just like the female singer from the Magnetic Fields? Anyone know if it's the same girl?
Posted 20 years ago by gntlemanartist    [ Reply ]
Moby made a great escape when Eminem was wanting to fight him. Personally, I think Moby could have taken him one on one, but Eminem has his huge posse. WORD!!!
Posted 20 years ago by JokesandJokesandJokes    [ Reply ]
apathy wrote:
I was really dissapointed with this entire album. It was months after 9/11, and I'd grieved enough. Most folks put this depressing garbage in a diary. Keep it to yourself, Moby. I sincerely hope your next effort provides me with a better listening experience. Just my opinion.
Oh yeah, "months." Months is such a long time to get over a travesty like 9/11. /sarcasm
Posted 20 years ago by Delgnat    [ Reply ]
i like this song :daisy.gif:
Posted 20 years ago by Jeanbean    [ Reply ]
apathy wrote:
I was really dissapointed with this entire album. It was months after 9/11, and I'd grieved enough. Most folks put this depressing garbage in a diary. Keep it to yourself, Moby. I sincerely hope your next effort provides me with a better listening experience. Just my opinion.
Pretty emotional for someone named apathy. ;) I think this is quite lovely. I really like the eerie harmony and the way it plays off the dual vocals. Nice.
Posted 21 years ago by Roverfish    [ Reply ]
Spooky.
Posted 21 years ago by MsJudi    [ Reply ]
I would say this sounds like an identical copy of many This Mortal Coil songs...
Posted 21 years ago by R_P    [ Reply ]
beautiful song
Posted 21 years ago by nexxia    [ Reply ]
Here\'s your lyrics: https://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?hid=pi5FWWZZdN4%3D
Posted 21 years ago by marycrichards    [ Reply ]
I was really dissapointed with this entire album. It was months after 9/11, and I\'d grieved enough. Most folks put this depressing garbage in a diary. Keep it to yourself, Moby. I sincerely hope your next effort provides me with a better listening experience. Just my opinion.
Posted 21 years ago by apathy    [ Reply ]
The lyrics are not disturbing... its about Houdini you jackasses
Posted 21 years ago by Beastman    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by Joyfulchristine: Is it just me...or are these lyrics really disturbing?
Anybody have a link to the lyrics?
Posted 21 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
Lack of talent cometh...
Posted 21 years ago by volvo1800es    [ Reply ]
Posted 21 years ago by nexxia    [ Reply ]
Yes, wonderfully disturbing lyrics in a way similar to Kate Bush\'s \"Under Ice\".
Posted 21 years ago by Snakeinthepool    [ Reply ]
i am glad this is short.
Posted 21 years ago by mperry    [ Reply ]
incredible piece... :)
Posted 21 years ago by nexxia    [ Reply ]
no kidding...! thanks - I honestly had not paid attention before. eerie in the extreme.
Originally Posted by Joyfulchristine: Is it just me...or are these lyrics really disturbing?
Posted 21 years ago by lostinoklahoma    [ Reply ]
Is it just me...or are these lyrics really disturbing?
Posted 21 years ago by Joyfulchristine    [ Reply ]
I can\'t believe this song has only gotten a 5.5! Is it because there are no words?
Posted 22 years ago by chieromancer    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by mlsully7: As has been said, this is Azure Ray singing. They are an outstanding group from Saddle Creek Records. The label was founded and is run by Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes.
That kid is into everything. I guess there's not much else for him to do in Omaha. :p I have only heard a couple of Bright Eyes songs tho. I really really hated them. A lot.
Posted 22 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
Moby has really disappointed me lately, but I enjoyed this track for sure. Keep it spinning...
Posted 22 years ago by Atrail    [ Reply ]
hmmm..........sounds just like \"So Cruel\" by U2. check it out!
Posted 22 years ago by trancefussion    [ Reply ]
As has been said, this is Azure Ray singing. They are an outstanding group from Saddle Creek Records. The label was founded and is run by Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes.
Posted 22 years ago by mlsully7    [ Reply ]
Hmm, I don\'t know, why Moby is seen as such a great musician everytime... Well, his older stuff was ok, there he did what he can best - making electronic music. But since \"Play\" his music became very boring. Most of the songs are just sampled vocals and drums with some beginner like instrument play (strings, piano or guitar). If he did these songs with a real band, they would be much better, but now they sound something like very early tries of a beginner... :(
Posted 22 years ago by beetFreeQ    [ Reply ]
waaaaaay too much Moby \'round these parts lately. very tiresome.
Posted 22 years ago by Platypus    [ Reply ]
I suspect that when people compare the new album to \"Play\" they are going to think it comes up just a bit short. Nonetheless, I think it is outstanding! I\'ve already lost track of the amount of times I\'ve listened to it since last week.
Posted 22 years ago by dsafanda    [ Reply ]
I love this song-what I\'ve heard of the whole album rocks so hard. Moby is what music should be about. :D
Posted 22 years ago by rawbery79    [ Reply ]